Independent Presbyterian Church
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

2010 Religious Arts Festival

 
photos by Paul Romjue
 The 39th annual
RELIGIOUS ARTS FESTIVAL
 
  January 31 - February 5, 2010
The Religious Arts Festival is a faith-enriching program offered freely to the community for the purpose of glorifying God through the rich spectrum of the arts. 
 
The 2010 Religious Arts Festival will take place January 31—February 5 and will feature a Film Festival, a Banquet, and a musical tour through Baroque Europe. All of the festival events are free, with the exception of the Thursday evening banquet. The Fine Arts Committee offers these programs as a gift to the community, and they encourage you to invite your friends to attend as well. There are no reserved seats and no tickets are required for the events.
 
 
An art display of Sacred Spaces will be available during the week in the second floor art gallery featuring the work of local artist Gina Hurry.  The Fine Arts Committee offers these programs as a gift to the community, and they encourage members and visitors to attend. There are no reserved seats and no tickets are required for the events except for the Banquet on Thursday evening.  This year's programs include:
 
  
 
2010 IPC Religious Arts Festival
 NOTE:   Due to bad weather, organist John Schwandt from the University of Oklahoma will not be able to be here on Sunday to accompany the silent film The King of Kings in the sanctuary. He will be here Monday night for the event.
 
 Following is the new film schedule:
Sunday, January 31, 7:00 p.m. Film:  The Illuminator (St. John's Bible) -  Great Hall
 
Monday, February 1, 7:00 p.m. Film:  Silent Film: The King of Kings, with organ accompaniment - Sanctuary
 
Tuesday, February 2, 7:00 p.m. Silent Film:  The Passion of Joan of Arc, with accompaniment. - Great Hall
 
 
 NOTE DATE:  Sunday, January 31, 2010   7:00 p.m. -  Great Hall   Free
Film:  The Illuminator  (St. John's Bible)
        The documentary film The Illuminator will be shown in the Great Hall. This film presents the process of the making of the Saint John's Bible, which is the first handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned since the invention of the printing press.
        In the 8th Century, near what are now Scotland and England, Benedictine monastic scribes created a Bible that today is one of the longest surviving monumental manuscripts in the Western world. Nearly 1,300 years later, renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson approached the Benedictine monks of Saint John’s University and Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, with his life-long dream: to create the first handwritten, illuminated bible commissioned since the invention of the printing press.  The Saint John’s Bible uses ancient materials and techniques to create a contemporary masterpiece that brings the Word of God to life for the contemporary world.
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTE DATE:   Monday, February 1, 2010  7:00 p.m. - Sanctuary - free
Film:  The King of Kings
Organist John Schwandt from the University of Oklahoma will accompany the Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 silent film The King of Kings  in the Sanctuary.    
 Starring H. B. Warner as Jesus and Dorothy Cumming as Mary, The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it.  In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part epic.
 
 
  
 
NOTE DATE:   Tuesday, February 2   7:00 p.m. -
Great Hall  Free
Film:  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  The landmark silent film  The Passion of Joan of Arc from 1928 will be shown in the Great Hall.
The oratorio Voice of Light by Richard Einhorn, composed in 1994, will accompany the film. 
      With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden who died for God and France.
Long thought to have been lost to fire, the original version was miraculously found in perfect condition in 1981-in a Norwegian mental institution.  This meticulous restoration is accompanied by a recorded rendition of Richard Einhorn's oratorio, Voices of Light, inspired by Dreyer's film and set to texts by women mystics from medieval and early-Renaissance Europe. A luminous work on its own, Einhorn's oratorio matches both the dramatic arcs and tremulous emotions of Dreyer's film, while its juxtaposition of choral and solo voices echoes the martyr's confrontation with the court. 
      A brief lecture on the historical significance of the film and the music will be given prior to the viewing. 
  
 
 
   
                                        Thursday, February 4, 2010  
   Religious Arts Festival Banquet   
5:30 p.m.  Reception in Parlor
6:00 p.m. Banquet in Great Hall 
7:00 p.m. Program  
$20  Reservations Required 
(Make reservations by January 28, 2010 with Barbara Fillmer 933-3700)
 The Religious Arts Festival Banquet will feature  Father Sean Duggan in a Lecture/Recital "The Spirituality of Bach" -- an in-depth look at Bach's religious background and the resulting influences on his life and music.
 
Fr. Duggan is the Chair of the Piano Department at the State University of New York at Fredonia. In September 1983 he won first prize in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition for pianists in Washington D.C. which entitled him, among other honors, to various concerts around the country and a two-month tour of Germany. In the "Bach Year," 1985, he gave complete performances of Bach's The Well-tempered Clavier in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Birmingham to critical acclaim. In 1991 he participated again in the Bach Competition in Washington D.C.; this time he was one of three first-place winners, which entitled him to another round of concert engagements and a second tour of Germany.
 
 
 
  
 
         
                          Friday, February 5, 2010     7:00 p.m.  Free
 Early Music Concert:
  Tempesta di Mare

Tempesta di Mare , a baroque instrumental ensemble from Philadelphia, will present an evening of Italian and German music "From Venice to Leipzig." 

The early music consort from Philadelphia Tempesta di Mare will be performing the program “From Venice to Leipzig” in the Great Hall. Tempesta di Mare performs baroque music on baroque instruments with what the Philadelphia City Paper describes as “zest and virtuosity that transcends style and instrumentation.” The group performs all orchestral repertoire without a conductor, as was the practice when this music was new. Tempesta di Mare is named for baroque master Antonio Vivaldi’s concerto meaning “storm at sea,” a title reflecting music’s power to evoke drama.

  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 Art Exhibit during the week - 2nd Floor Art Gallery
Sacred Spaces  by Gina Hurry
An art display of Sacred Spaces will be available during the week in the second floor art gallery
featuring the work of local artist Gina Hurry.
 
  
 
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